University of Michigan - February 1, 2013

Summary

On Monday, January 21st, 2013, Jeff Vautin (University of Michigan alumnus) and Bud MacLellan from Bose Corporation's Automotive Systems division visited the University of Michigan student section of the AES to give a presentation about designing acoustic system for vehicles. A car is one of the harshest acoustic environments for an audio system; it has simultaneously very reflective and very dry material, and the small space introduces harmful standing waves. Mr. Vautin and Mr. MacLellan talked about the techniques Bose uses to get around these challenges to produce the best audio quality possible, ranging from optimal speaker placement to the different digital signal processing methods used for different speakers throughout the car.